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- Title
MINE REMEDIATION AND HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: A GOLD MINE'S TALE.
- Authors
SELVERSTON, MARK D.; HILTON, STEVEN M.
- Abstract
Empire Mine State Historic Park contains the Empire Mine Historic District, a sprawling landscape encompassing remains of numerous gold mining ventures. As DPR pursues remediation activities to reduce human exposure to contamination associated with past mining activity, Sonoma State University has conducted investigations to reduce potential effects on cultural resources. Presently, the Empire Mine serves as the anchor of the park, placed on the National Register as a historic district in 1977 for its distinguished gold mining history. Studies involved a survey of the entire 850-acre park, resulting in the discovery of 500 distinct historic-era resources, mostly archaeological in nature. Many of the historic-era operations, from early Gold Rush placer mining to large, turn-of-the-century incorporated hard-rock extraction and milling ventures have been long forgotten, as have their contributions to the gold mining history of the West. All of these resources were evaluated as potential contributors to the historic district, relying largely on Caltrans' timely research design developed specifically for gold mining contexts (California Department of Transportation [Caltrans] 2008). This paper describes the study and the 500 historic-era resources discovered.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; HISTORICAL archaeology; HISTORIC districts; PROTECTION of cultural property; GOLD mining; EMPIRE Mine (Calif.)
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, 2013, Vol 27, p193
- ISSN
0897-0947
- Publication type
Article